No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. Our hands are earth, our bodies clay and our eyes pools of rain. We do not know whether we are still alive.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.